The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the suspension in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, citing the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence….
The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL) has unveiled its keynote speaker for the 15th Annual Business Law Conference scheduled to hold on Wednesday, July 14th, and Thursday 15th, 2021. In a press statement signed by the Chair of the Conference Media, Publicity & Mobilization subcommittee, Theodora Kio-Lawson, the Section revealed that…
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday expressed worry over the state of the nation and blamed bad leadership for the nation’s woes. The former president, while receiving a book titled, ‘The Man, The General and The President,’ written by Femmy Carrena, said in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, that even though the country is…
The Commonwealth Lawyer has been the CLA’s principal vehicle of information and knowledge dissemination for nearly five decades. Founded in 1984, it went out of publication for a brief period in the late 1980s and 1990s, but was revived – in its current, enlarged format – at the start of the millennium and has been…
I prepare this report approximately 3 months before the Commonwealth Law Conference in Nassau, Bahamas. The arrangements for the Conference have of course been greatly impacted by the uncertainties arising from the pandemic. Will delegates be able to travel and will those who travel be able to return smoothly to their own country after the…
In an earlier article, we introduced Canada’s first fully online dispute resolution Tribunal – British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT). This online forum has exclusive jurisdiction over a number of different types of civil claim, including strata title (condominium) disputes, issues involving co-operatives and societies, and civil claims up to a value of $5000 Canadian. …
Six weeks ago, the first significant changes in years were made to the Canadian Divorce Act. The Divorce Act is federal legislation, and deals parenting, child and spousal support and of course, divorce. The Act does not deal with the property of married couples after they separate, which is under the jurisdiction of each province….
The University of Lagos Governing Council has approved the dismissal of two of its lecturers, Dr. Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Languages and Integration Studies, Faculty of Arts; and Dr. Samuel Omoniyi Oladipo of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences. The university’s governing council arrived at its decision during its meeting…
Unknown gunmen have shot and killed Christopher Dega, a senior special assistant to the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom on Security matters. Mr Dega, a retired assistant inspector-general of police, was killed on Tuesday in Jos, the Plateau state capital. Details of the incident are still sketchy but Terver Akase, a spokesperson to the…
Twitter has deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet threatening genocide against the people of Igbo-dominated South-East. The social media giant deleted Mr Buhari’s tweet following enquiries from newsmen with the context in which the Nigerian leader issued the threat on Tuesday night. The Nigerian leader may also be locked out of his account for 24 hours…